Clothes-line support.



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' CLOTHES LNE SUPPORT.

APPLICATION EILBD MAR. 9, 1907.

ATENTED FEB. 4, 190g.

construction,

UNITED sTATEs HUGH MORRIS, Ol" NEW ROCHELLE, NEW YORK.

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QLOIHES-LINE SUPPORT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 4, 1908.

Application filed March 9\ 1907. Serial No. 361,542.

.citizen of the United States, residing at New Rochelle, in the county of lYestchestcr and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in a Clothes-Line Support, of which the following isa specification. T his invention relates to chothes line supports, and more particularly to adjustable clothes line supports for endless clothes lines, adapted to be used in windows, the object being to provide a support which can be v easily and quickly attached to the ordinary window, and which is very effective in use..

Another object of my invention is to provide a support for supporting endless clothes lines which can extend into the room so that the clothes can be readily placed thereon.

' Another object of my invention is to provide a clothes line support which is very simple and cheap in construction, and one which can be easily and quickly operated.

W'ith these and other objects in view, the invention consists in the novel features of combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings forming a part of this speciiicationz--Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved clothes line holder showing it attached to a window casing, and

extended into the rooln. Fig. 2 is a side elevational view -of my improved holder showing it dropped into ,a vertical position so as to stretch the clothes line. F ig. 3 is a side elevational view of one of thev supporting hooks. l

In the drawings A indicates a rod on which secured a sleeve B provided with an eye B on which is mounted a 'screw (l, secured to the casing of the window, outside of the sashes. 'lhe sleeve B is provided with` a i semicircular ring B2 having a hook B extendinginwardly therefrom which is adapted to engage a screw-hook D secured in the casing, adjacent the screw (l, which vextends out through the ring and holds the supportV 1n a vertical position as will be hereinafter fully' described.

A guide-eye B4 extends out from the oppo- I site side of the sleeve B through which ex- ,j tends one of the line strandsof an endless clothes line E which passes over the pulley F mounted in a fork G carried by a sleeve (1 secured on the bar A, adjacent its handle A.

strand passes, and on its opposite side with a hook H2 adapted to iit over a screw-hook- I secured in the window-frame for supporting the bar in an extended position, so that clothes can be readily placed on the lower line strand from the 1'nside of the window. This sleeve is slidably mounted on the bar so that it can be adjusted on the same so as to suit different sized Window frames.

Loosely mounted on the bar A between' the semicircular ring B2 and a pin J secured in the rod, is a sleeve K provided withA a downwardly extending arin K having op ositely disposed hook-members K2 at its en one of whlch is adapted to engage the lower'line, and hold the same taut after the clothes have been placed thereon, as shown in Fig. 2. The arm being provided with two hooks, so that either one can be used according to which side of the window casing the support is attached..

From the foregoing description itwill be readily seen thatwhen the bar is thrown upwardly into a horizontal position, as shown in Fig. 1, the lower line stand will be insuch a position that clothes canbe readily secured thereon from the inside of the Window, and when dropped into the position shown in Fig. 2, the lower line being hooked over One'ofthe hooks of the arm, so as to take u any slack in the same and securely hold t e carrying the clothes up into position.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I clairn as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A clothes line support comprising a bar carrying a sleeve ada ted to be pivoted to the window casing and) provided with a hook adapted to engage a screw in the windowcasi'ng, a pulleyinountml on said bar carrying a clothes line, a hook carried bythe bar adjacent the pulley adapted to engage the hook secured. in the window-frame, and a sleeve loosely mounted on said bar provided with an arm having op ositel disposed hooks adapted to engage t 1c clot les line.

2. A clothes line support comprising a bar having -a sleeve secu-red thereon adjacent one end provided with a seinicircular ring having an inwardly projectingvhook, means for pivbei ceJrryii/igv e clothes line, and hook cerf'4 tion, e pu ey carried by the other end o, seidl bei', a clothes line mounted on. said pulley, and e hook adjustably mounted on seid bei' adapted to engage e hook secured in the Window frame, for supporting the ber in ahorizontal position. i y

4. -The combination With e ber pivot/ally mounted on a screw secured in the Windowcasing, of a pulley mounted on one end of seid ber carrying an endless clothes line, ay hook loosely mounted on seid bar adapted to engage the hook secured in the Window-frame and means slidably mounted on seid bei' for holding seid'endless line taut for the purpose described. v

5. The combination With a. bar lia-ying e, sleeve seeured'en one end adapted to be pix7` otelly connected to e Windev? casing, e seiniedepted to be engaged by said senesi.

circuler ring cerried by said sleeveprovided with e hook, a. hook secured in the Window easing extending out through said ring hook, e pulley mounted on the other end of said bar carrying a, clothes line7 end a hook slidablymounted on seidl bar adapted to en age a hook secured in the Window-rame, or the purpose described.

6. The combination with e bar, lia-ving e sleeve secured on one end adapted to be pive otallyllnoiinted on the Window casing, a guide eye carried by said sleeve, a sleeve secured on the other end of seid ber carrying a pulley, e

hook slidably mounted on said bar provided.

with en eye, a clothes line passing through the eye of the sleeve and the eye of the hook and over said pulley, ineens for holding said ber in a vert-ical position, and Ineens for holding the lower strand of the clothes line taut, l'or the purpose described.

HUGHMRRIS.

vWitnesses.

SOLOMON LnyrsoN, PHILIP LEnanUID. 

